Lisa Rodensky

Lisa Rodensky serves as Dean of Faculty Affairs and Professor of English at Wellesley College, affiliated with the Department of English & Creative Writing and Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing. She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, LL.D. from Harvard University, and Ph.D. from Boston University.

Her research specializes in 19th- and 20th-century British literature, particularly Victorian novels and their intersection with legal studies. Current projects include editing The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel and a legal history manuscript, while her published work examines criminal responsibility in Victorian fiction through interdisciplinary law-literature frameworks.

Awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for her scholarly work, she teaches courses spanning from introductory poetry interpretation to advanced seminars on Victorian/modern novels. She has developed specialized courses preparing students for thesis work and plans to create new offerings in literary editing.

Active in academic societies, she serves as trustee of the Dickens Society and organized the 2009 Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference at Wellesley.